Tomcat and proxy settings

Question

There is a servlet running on tomcat7 and it makes a webservice call to a third party website. The call works fine from the windows machine but when run from tomcat it fails

Answer 1

You can use jProxyLoader library. Using this lib you can configure Tomcat to use proxy only for connections to specific host. In your case you can configure Tomcat to go via proxy only for connections to host serving the webservice (all the other connections will be handled by Tomcat "normal" way - without proxy).

Complete setup is explained on project website: http://jproxyloader.sourceforge.net/examples/web-application-on-tomcat.html